"Aside from a few outliers (looking at you, Peter Thiel), almost everyone in the tech world was shocked and appalled. At a conference I attended that Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it was " a pretty crazy idea " to think that his company had anything to do with the outcome. The following Saturday, I was leaving my favorite breakfast place in downtown Palo Alto when I ran into Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple."
"Certainly last year when Cook gifted President Trump a glitzy Apple sculpture with a 24k gold base, and most recently this past weekend when he attended a White House screening of the $40 million vanity documentary about Melania Trump. The event, which also included Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (whose company funded the project) and AMD CEO Lisa Su, took place only hours after the Trump administration's masked army in Minneapolis put 10 bullets into 37-year-old Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse Alex Pretti."
Silicon Valley executives reacted with shock after Donald Trump's 2016 victory but later pursued access to the administration through gifts and White House appearances. Tim Cook presented a glitzy Apple sculpture to President Trump and attended a White House screening of a costly Melania Trump documentary alongside other tech CEOs, including Amazon's Andy Jassy and AMD's Lisa Su. That screening occurred only hours after masked officers in Minneapolis shot Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse Alex Pretti ten times. The timing and proximity of the violence to high-profile tech engagements underscore growing questions about the moral and political price of courting the administration.
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